Edgar Dearing
Born: 1893-05-03 in Ceres, California, USA
Died: 1974-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.
Filmography
2024
- Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- Thriller as The Police Sergeant
- The Tall Man
- Pollyanna as Mr. Gorman
1959
- The Twilight Zone as First Resurrected Man
- No Name on the Bullet as Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
1958
1957
- Trackdown as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1956
- State Trooper
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie
1954
- Public Defender
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Gorman
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
1953
- I'm the Law
- It Came from Outer Space as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- Vice Squad as Fitz (uncredited)
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Police Lt. Ryan
- Cavalcade of America as Fitz
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
- Carson City as Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
- Ruby Gentry
- Glory Alley as Man at Gym (uncredited)
1951
- Boston Blackie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Silver Canyon as Colonel Middler
- As You Were as Sgt. Monahan
- Pecos River as Henry Mahoney
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop Willard
1950
- Union Station as Detective (uncredited)
- Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Hunt the Man Down as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
- The Iroquois Trail as Colonial Major (uncredited)
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Randolph Dike
1949
- Sorrowful Jones as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
- The Threat as Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Reiber
1948
- My Girl Tisa as Jailer (uncredited)
- Out of the Storm as Ed Purcell
- Man or Mouse as Hercules Jones
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Policeman
- Magic Town as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
- Where There's Life as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Christmas Eve as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Policeman (uncredited)
1946
- The Virginian
- Nocturne as Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
- Road to Utopia as Official Policeman (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as Policeman (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Al - First Studio Cop
- Johnny Angel as Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
- Midnight Manhunt as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
- Her Lucky Night as Casey
- Don't Fence Me In as Chief of Police
- Swing Out, Sister as Motorcycle Cop
1944
- And the Angels Sing as Man (uncredited)
- In Society as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
- Make Your Own Bed as Sergeant
- Strange Affair as Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- Seven Doors to Death as Claude Burns
1943
- Princess O'Rourke as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
- Swing Shift Maisie as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
- Fired Wife as Sullivan
1942
- My Favorite Blonde as Joe - Policeman
- The Affairs of Martha as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Apache Trail as Marshal (uncredited)
- My Favorite Spy as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
- Between Us Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
- Miss Annie Rooney as Policeman
- A Gentleman After Dark as Joe
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Irondome (uncredited)
- Pot o' Gold as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
- Remember the Day as Detective
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Policeman (uncredited)
- Louisiana Purchase as House Detective (uncredited)
- Maisie Was a Lady as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
- Caught in the Draft as Recruiting Sergeant
- Niagara Falls as State Trooper
1940
- Go West as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Policeman
- No Time for Comedy as Sweeny (uncredited)
- Knute Rockne All American as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Policeman (uncredited)
- Florian as Cop
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Police Officer
- Primrose Path as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- When the Daltons Rode as Sheriff
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Sailor's Lady as Chief Master-of-Arms
- American Spoken Here as Mike Fink (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Wyoming as Capt. Evans
- Wildcat Bus as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
- Lucky Partners as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Little Orvie as Policeman
- And One Was Beautiful as Higgins
- Cross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Policeman
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
- Full Confession as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
- A Child is Born as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- Thunder Afloat as Petty Officer (uncredited)
- Honolulu as Jailer
- Four Girls in White as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jim Simmons
- Blondie Meets the Boss as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Second Bartender (uncredited)
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
- King of the Underworld as Police Detective (uncredited)
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
1938
- You Can't Take It with You as Bill (uncredited)
- Blondie as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
- The Chaser as Policeman at End
- Maid's Night Out as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Listen, Darling as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Policeman
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
- Hard to Get as Eddie (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
- Spring Madness as Policeman
- Love Is a Headache as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
- Border G-Man as Smoky Joslin
1937
- The Awful Truth as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- You Only Live Once as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Love Is News as Motorcycle Officer
- They Gave Him a Gun as Sgt. Meadowlark
- Big City as Tom Reilley
- Midnight Taxi as Officer Murray
- It Happened in Hollywood as Joe Stevens
- Dangerous Number as Policeman
- Married Before Breakfast as Police Sergeant
1936
- After the Thin Man as Bill (uncredited)
- Swing Time as (uncredited)
- That Girl from Paris as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- All Business as House Detective
- Border Flight as Smugglers' Pilot
- Back to Nature as Motorcycle Officer
- Bunker Bean as Policeman (uncredited)
- Down the Ribber
1935
- Rendezvous as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
- If You Could Only Cook as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Railroad Man
- Stolen Harmony as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Precint 5 Policeman
- The Nitwits as Police Officer Barney Riley
- Helldorado as Motorcycle Cop
- The Rainmakers as Kelly
- A Quiet Fourth
1934
- Cleopatra as Convict
- Ocean Swells as Captain
- Thirty Day Princess as Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
- Kentucky Kernels as Policeman (uncredited)
1933
- The Midnight Patrol as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
- Eskimo as Constable Balk (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Train Official (uncredited)
- The Lost Squadron as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
1931
- The Painted Desert as Buck's Partner
- The Star Witness as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
- Consolation Marriage as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
- Next Door Neighbors as Cop
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Armstrong
- Free and Easy as Officer
- Two Plus Fours as Rent Collector
- A Man from Wyoming as Sergeant
- Estrellados as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Traffic Tangle as Motor Cop
- Rich Uncles
- Live and Learn as Mr. Smith
1929
- The Mighty as Doughboy
- Flight as Football Coach
- The Locked Door as Cop
- The Jazz Age as Motor Cop
- A Pair of Tights as Policeman (uncredited)
- Clunked on the Corner as Cop
1928
- Limousine Love as Motorcycle cop
- Lonesome as Cop (uncredited)
- Came the Dawn as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Henchman
- Fair and Muddy as Motorcycle Cop
1927
- Call of the Cuckoo as Guest
- Should Men Walk Home?
- Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor
1926
- On the Front Page as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)